Chessington Computer Centre was an organisation based in

Chessington Chessington is an area in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames within Greater London. Historically part of Surrey, today it is the largest salient of Greater London into that county. At the 2011 census it had a population of 18,973. Th ...

that provided administration services to the

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. Originally part of central government, it became an

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and

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of the

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on 1 April 1993. In July 1996 it was sold to a management and employee buy-out team for £12.5 million. It was acquired by

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in September 1998, but was later closed in June 2005.

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